Chiwetel Ejiofor is a celebrated actor and director, who won fame through the films, 'Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and '12 Years a Slave (2013). The boy who harnessed the wind (2019) is a cinematic adaptation of the memoir of the same name authored by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. Ejiofor directed it and acted in it. It visualizes how a fourteen year old boy used his knowledge from a local library to build a windmill and brought electricity and water irrigation to his village. It was how Malawi survived the severe 2001 famine.